Colouring your hair

[malkin]

Growing up I loved my grannies and aunties, gray hair and all, which was good, since I started noticing gray hairs in junior high (fercryin'outloud).

Some time ago, reflecting on the Laws of Thermodynamics, I came up with:
The Laws of Primping, the first one being:

If you don't look better after primping than before primping, then the time spent primping was wasted.


Not to say that there's anything wrong with wasting time or with primping; I enjoy wasting time in a number of ways...but...hmm...my husband has just handed me the phone and the business card from the hair salon...

Is that a hint?

[dachshund]

OK, I keep seeing this thread, so I'll chime in on my personal choice for aging hair. I really like the salt-and-pepper look, especially on short, close-cropped hair. I like the texture. So I got brave a few years ago and had mine cut super short. I love it! It feels great. So the gray stays, it's now part of the design.

And after a bike ride I have Perfect helmet head....

[malkin]

I should take a hat with me. After a ride, my hair could frighten small children.

[MsTerra]

I used to tint my hair auburn (it's naturally medium dark brown with natural highlights) just for kicks, then stopped because of the bother. A couple-few years ago the grays started to make their presence known, but I resisted the nagging of my in-laws (they're in the hairdressing business - my MIL is a colorist) who told me I should dye it because "You don't want to look older than your husband, do you?" Then last year, at the age of 40, I was job-hunting. Got loads of interviews that never seemed to go anywhere. Finally I caved and started dying again. I took this picture before I went the Clairol route:



I liked that gray streak, but not long after I "washed it right outta my hair" I got a job. (It's an awesome job, too, totally worth it.) So now I just touch it up every month. My hair is very healthy and it takes the dye fine. My funds for personal grooming are not unlimited, so I choose to spend on the cut. Not that you can tell from the photo. I've since gone for a long layered cut that brings out the waves.

[dex]

I dyed my hair last night. It's fuschia. I love it.

I've been dying it various colors for the past five years, or so. Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting any gray hairs, but I never have the patience to wait long enough to find out before I grab another bottle of dye.

[salsabike]

I dyed my hair last night. It's fuschia. I love it.

I've been dying it various colors for the past five years, or so. Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting any gray hairs, but I never have the patience to wait long enough to find out before I grab another bottle of dye.

Go Dex! To me, hair color is just pure fun.

[Dogmama]

I dyed my hair last night. It's fuschia. I love it.

I've been dying it various colors for the past five years, or so. Sometimes I wonder if I'm getting any gray hairs, but I never have the patience to wait long enough to find out before I grab another bottle of dye.

PICTURE PICTURE PICTURE...please?

My niece put purple highlights in her black hair & it's gorgeous! It looks like a veil of deep purple.

[CATWOMAN]

Alas, my hair is really thin, bordering on anemic and it looks like crud with the gray.

When I was under 35 yrs. I had nice thick hair and wore it short. I always got compliments on my haircuts. I decided that when I got gray I would continue my short cuts and it would look spunky. However, as I got older my hair started to thin out in the front! The doctor told me to use Rogain for men (Even though the package says women shouldn't use it). "Alas" my hair is thickening up. I hate the thought of using it, but the reality that my hair was quickly becoming thinner than my husband's was even more troubling.

[dex]

PICTURE PICTURE PICTURE...please?

I'll try to snap one tomorrow.

[teigyr]

I'd say hair color is like makeup. It is FUN. I love the over the top stuff but despise the things to "enhance your natural beauty". Please. It is what it is and it's pretty shallow at that but I like it. If it all were meant to fool people, it doesn't. If it's meant to cover up insecurities, well, maybe it does. A bit. Other than that, it is a means to self-expression and creativity.

This coming from a girl who wore (blended, mind you) glittery blue eyeshadow to work.

and Dex, yes. Picture!! I used to get that color from red dye and purple mousse way back when...it was SUCH a fantastic color.

[dex]

So, it took me longer than I thought to (remember to) take a picture. I ended up taking two. Forgive the blown out quality, please. I took these on my phone.

[Andrea]

So, it took me longer than I thought to (remember to) take a picture. I ended up taking two. Forgive the blown out quality, please. I took these on my phone.

Woohoo!!! Awesome!

[snapdragen]

That looks great Dex. Makes my new reddish brown pale in comparison...

[Raindrop]

I'm chiming in with a vote that color is for fun!. I've been having weird stuff done to my hair ever since I started bartering personal training for hair styling and color. My client/stylist is awesome when it comes to both. I just wish I had better hair (mine's pretty thin and fine). I've had it extremely short for the last eight years or so because of all the sweating I do when teaching spinning classes, personal training or riding. I've also had my hair with varying shades of purple, fushia, dark brown w/deep maroon highlights, and currently, bright wide blond highlights, with my natural darker brown underneath and a color called "chili" as the third color.

The other day, as I was leaving the gym after teaching a cycle class a woman passed me and said, "I love your hair. I just wish I was that bold!"

Believe me, if I wasn't bartering for this...I doubt I would put this much money into my hair. But...I'm having fun with it. (by the way, I know I have grey in the front. I don't think there's any in the back cause that's pretty short and is my natural hair...but I'm currently growing out my hair somewhat....going from a short cut to an asymetrical kind of bob thing. So, if I have more grey back there, I'll soon know.

[carpaltunnel]

My hair was white when I was a child and gradually turned brown as I became an adult. When it started graying in my early 40's I started getting highlights because you couldn't tell when there were roots and everything kind of blended together. I did that for about 18 years until I decided not to bother any more. Now my hair is nearly white and I keep getting it cut shorter and shorter.

But here's the mystery: all my life my hair has been super fine and very very straight. Now the back and top is kind of kinky curly and I can just mousse it a little, lift it with a brush a little, and let it air dry, then pick it out and it's good to go. What makes peoples hair suddenly decide to get curly?